WINNIPEG — Assiniboia Downs CEO Darren Dunn made it clear last week saying that when the track opened for live racing this season: “We must put our best foot forward.”
WINNIPEG — Assiniboia Downs CEO Darren Dunn made it clear last week saying that when the track opened for live racing this season: “We must put our best foot forward.”
WINNIPEG — After waiting an extra eight days, the 2022 Assiniboia Downs live racing season is about to begin.
If the weather wasn’t already the main storyline of 2022, it’s now put a wrench into the plans at Assiniboia Downs to start the racing season.
Gold Strike, a beautiful filly that was bred and raced by Manitoba’s Dick Bonnycastle out of Harlequin Ranches, was the Two-Year-Old Filly of the Year at Assiniboia Downs in 2004.
Yes, it’s true. There is a favourite in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby named Messier and yes, he’s named after the legendary hockey star.
WINNIPEG — At the start of the 2021 Assiniboia Downs live racing season back in April, many people were surprised to see trainer Shelley Brown back in her barn.
With six days remaining in the Assiniboia Downs 2021 thoroughbred racing season, a coronation is right around the corner.
WINNIPEG — It was a pretty great week for Cam Ziprick. On Sunday, he not only had the best CTHS Manitoba Yearling sale of his long career as a thoroughbred horse breeder, but on Monday, Hidden Grace, the gorgeous five-year-old mare he co-owns with his friend Barry Arnason, won the $35,000 Distaff Stakes for older fillies and mares.
WINNIPEG — Although there is still one month remaining in the 2021 Thoroughbred Racing Season at Assiniboia Downs, track CEO Darren Dunn is looking directly at the future.
WINNIPEG — The popular Night Market at Assiniboia Downs is returning this weekend.
WINNIPEG — Jared Brown remembers the first time he ever went to a race track. Looking back, it’s the reason he’s been in the horse racing business for the better part of the last 30 years.
WINNIPEG — On Wednesday night at Assiniboia Downs, undefeated three-year-old, Manitoba-bred filly Melisandre ran the most impressive race of her already impressive career.